Getting Older With Bridget Jones

Time has always been ticking by for Bridget Jones. When Renée Zellweger first played Helen Fielding’s chaotic singleton in 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, the character was fretting about being a “tragic spinster” at 32, an age in which plenty of Brooklynites are still living with multiple roommates and wondering if they can afford to spring for health insurance. In the second movie, she agonizes over whether Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) is ever going to propose, and by the third, she’s going ahead with an unexpected pregnancy, whether either of the possible fathers opts to be in the picture, because she’s 43 and it might be her only chance. And yet, despite two decades of anxiety…